Watch a Backgammon Board Being Made (No Talking ASMR)

Hi all, This project is another one of my weekend workshop experiments where I try out a bit of marquetry for the first time. There are a lot of things I'd do differently if I had to do this again - more stable plywood, bonding each side of the board beforehand together instead of shooting them after the fact of their gluing, and using an accurate table saw to cut the mitres instead of sanding them. I don't have an accurate table saw (NEVER buy the Triton entry level ones if you want to cut anything with any degree of accuracy!) so I used a sander which got dusty. And while we're on things you shouldn't get - the hinges I used were very soft metal, which was a pain to screw in. I realise you might want to lookup some of the tools I used in this video if you want to try your own board. The most important tools here were my scalpel and probably my sander, but I also used hand planes, SKIL saw, drills and screwdrivers. I'd recommend SKIL stuff for DIY use, they're perf